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LayerNorm · rows = 4096 · hidden = 8192 · fp32 · run 01a016af-05f0…
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Primary measurement
483.3µsmedian

Rank 2 in its comparison group · source-native comparison · observed 2025-07-17

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ms 20 0.48214399814605713 · ms 50 0.4832639992237091 · ms 80 0.4843647956848145

Identity
implementationTransformers
projectHugging Face Transformers
revisionunknown
workloadrows = 4096 · hidden = 8192 · fp32
comparison keysha256:58364fd2ebf12b69…
sourceLiger-Kernel benchmarks
external idlayer_norm/full/huggingface/nvidia-h100-80gb-hbm3/hidden8192-rows4096-fp32/2025-07-17-18-18-23
sha256:6a10f4a1b82a2381e31d8e7…

Correctness

Marked passed by the source; the correctness policy was not published.

Workload

rows4096
hidden8192
xfp32 [4096, 8192]
biasfp32 [8192]
weightfp32 [8192]
definition comparatornot_asserted

Measurements

latency · median483.3 µs
latency · p20482.1 µs
latency · p80484.4 µs

Protocol

harnessLiger-Kernel benchmark scripts
timercuda_events
primaryStatisticmedian
comparabilityFamilyliger_kernel_bench

Environment

gpuNVIDIA H100 (sm_90)

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